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The United Kingdom ends its travel ban on Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
2021-12-20

Twelve people are dead and 4,500 are sick in the Democratic Republic of the Congo following a toxic leak from a massive diamond mine in Angola.
2021-09-2

The People's Republic of China arrests 300 people in the first month in a crackdown on alleged terrorists.
2014-06-23

South Korea announces that it will expand its air defense zone in response to a recent move by the People's Republic of China.
2013-12-8

Two Japanese cabinet ministers, Jin Matsubara and Yuichiro Hata, visit the controversial Yasukuni Shrine amid territorial disputes with both the People's Republic of China and South Korea.
2012-08-15

International powers including the United States, Russia and the People's Republic of China agree to a transition plan for Syria.
2012-06-30

Three children die after drinking suspected nitrite- (as opposed to 2008's melamine-) tainted milk in China; 35 others are hospitalized.
2011-04-8

The People's Republic of China detains Ai Weiwei, a leading artist and dissident, as part of a crackdown on dissenting views.
2011-04-3

The Karmapa Lama, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, Tibetan Buddhism's third-highest lama, is questioned by police after large amounts of foreign money are found at his monastery in Dharamsala, northern India. Some Indian media allege he is acting as a spy for China.
2011-02-1

Three people are arrested in China's Guangdong Province in relation to a $90 million gold heist, the biggest in Hong Kong history.
2010-12-4